What the fuck is that… it’s triggering KILLITWITHFIRE…
Just… I really am sorry that SHOULD trigger ‘that person needs severe help’ but all i’m getting from pit of gut is KILL BEFORE IT SPREADS.
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My bad.
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Government by YouTube commenters has got to be the absolutely purest possible example of a kakistocracy.
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No worries.
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If I recall correctly Saudi Arabia doesn’t even have a penal code. The crime and punishment is entirely up to the judge.
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19 is not really a “cute kid”. That’s an adult…
I’ve seen the internet. I don’t adulthood starts until the mid fifties now.
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I am in two minds over Tibet. The way the ordinary people were treated was appalling, and monasteries fought one another for power and influence. Chinese Daoist Buddhism and the teachings of Kung Fu-Tse were far more positive towards the rural poor than was Tibetan Buddhism. It’s only really with the present Dalai Lama than Yellow Hat Buddhism has really had a good press.
The way the Chinese took over Tibet was bad, but they seem to be investing in it. It would be interesting to know what percentage of Tibetans are better off under Chinese Statism*. (I think there’s no real doubt that Afghan women were better off during the pre-Soviet and Soviet periods, and if the US hadn’t armed the Islamic crazies as part of their proxy war, Afghanistan might not be in its present mess.)
But I’m just perhaps prejudiced, because the Chinese seem to be more interested in investing in the UK than the supposedly British investors do.
*I don’t know the answer, I mean I really would like to know from the point of view of understanding a bit more.
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twenty my arse
Thing you use your left hand for wiping?
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Huxley’s problem was that he wanted to describe a dystopia whereas he described a society so well run by altruistic philosopher kings that even people who were miserable in that society could go off and choose the nicest place to be miserable in, along with other like minded people. Who wouldn’t want to live there? It’s the exact opposite of almost all other societies, which are run by greedy controlling bastards who ensure that most people are as badly off as can be got away with without actual revolution.
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In case no one has said, I believe that gif is from American Mary:
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another reason to get off the oil, no more money means no more of this crap (at least on the world level).
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Human Rights Watch:
“Saudi Arabia has no penal code, and judges can issue death sentences in three types of cases: offenses against God (hudud), including apostasy, offenses against persons, such as murder and rape, both of which are defined under Shari’a, or Islamic law, or on a “discretionary basis” for any act that a judge considers merits the death penalty, even where those acts are not defined as criminal offenses.”
CFR:
“Saudi Arabia was the top destination for U.S. arms in 2011–2015, purchasing 9.7 percent of U.S. exports.”
The kid got off lucky. He could have been executed, and it it was by firing squad rather than beheading, it could have been by US bullets.
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That is a surprisingly awesome movie. And I think you’re correct in where that comes from.
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